Tuesday, April 17, 2012

BROWN SUGAR BANANA BREAD

As you all well know, the last thing I need is another cookbook, but this one, I swear to you, beckoned to me.It had all of the elements that make up the type of book I want: based in the South (we all know what great cooks those Southern women are), a color picture to represent every recipe, and the recipes are from a BAKERY in Savannah.Yes, a bakery!Do you understand my need for having this one?I thought you would.It’s called The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook, and it will leave you drooling. When I first picked it up and started flipping through it I told myself that I’d get it from the library and write out the recipes that I wanted to try.Twenty seven recipes later I figured it would save me a lot of time just to buy it.Clearly it will get a lot of use.

Today, eyeing bananas about to go bad, I decided to give a recipe a test run with this Brown Sugar Banana Bread.I am very picky about my banana bread, so figured this would be the real test of a good cookbook.It was delicious.Easy to make, very moist, and the brown sugar does amazing things to this loaf that white sugar just could not do.I varied the recipe a bit in that while I mashed two of the bananas, I diced the third.I like chunks of banana in my banana bread and this was a real winning combination.